When Is a Company Too Big To Manage? (Financial Times)

Is it possible that modern, complex organizations are too large to manage properly? Is HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver correct when he opines “Can I know what everyone of 257,000 employees is doing? Clearly, I can’t.” Andrew Hill writes about this dilemma in the FT (February 27, 2015). My advice is to “trust and verify.” Read more: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/87395500-bdd2-11e4-8cf3-00144feab7de.html#axzz40ylLZK3j